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Instead of rigid, cumbersome flat solar panels, you could soon be powering your home and electronics with a sticker. Engineers at <a title="Stanford School of Engineering | Engineering" href="http://engineering.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford</a> have successfully fabricated thin, flexible solar cells that are able to be peeled and attached to almost any surface. The new technology is described in the December 20th issue of <a title="Peel-and-Stick: Fabricating Thin Solar Cell on Universal Substrates" href="http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121220/srep01000/full/srep01000.html" target="_blank"><em>Scientific Reports</em></a> and details how the team of scientists led by Xiaolin Zheng and Chi Hwan Lee achieved such a remarkable breakthrough....<br><br><a href='http://inhabitat.com/stanford-scientists-create-the-worlds-first-peel-and-stick-solar-cells/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Instead of rigid, cumbersome flat solar panels, you could soon be powering your home and electronics with a sticker. Engineers at <a title="Stanford School of Engineering | Engineering" href="http://engineering.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford</a> have successfully fabricated thin, flexible solar cells that are able to be peeled and attached to almost any surface. The new technology is described in the December 20th issue of <a title="Peel-and-Stick: Fabricating Thin Solar Cell on Universal Substrates" href="http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121220/srep01000/full/srep01000.html" target="_blank"><em>Scientific Reports</em></a> and details how the team of scientists led by Xiaolin Zheng and Chi Hwan Lee achieved such a remarkable breakthrough....<br><br><a href='http://inhabitat.com/stanford-scientists-create-the-worlds-first-peel-and-stick-solar-cells/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Peel and Stick Solar Cells

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Instead of rigid, cumbersome flat solar panels, you could soon be powering your home and electronics with a sticker. Engineers at <a title="Stanford School of Engineering | Engineering" href="http://engineering.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford</a> have successfully fabricated thin, flexible solar cells that are able to be peeled and attached to almost any surface. The new technology is described in the December 20th issue of <a title="Peel-and-Stick: Fabricating Thin Solar Cell on Universal Substrates" href="http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121220/srep01000/full/srep01000.html" target="_blank"><em>Scientific Reports</em></a> and details how the team of scientists led by Xiaolin Zheng and Chi Hwan Lee achieved such a remarkable breakthrough....<br><br><a href='http://inhabitat.com/stanford-scientists-create-the-worlds-first-peel-and-stick-solar-cells/'>READ ARTICLE</a>

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Instead of rigid, cumbersome flat solar panels, you could soon be powering your home and electronics with a sticker. Engineers at Stanford have successfully fabricated thin, flexible solar cells that are able to be peeled and attached to almost any surface. The new technology is described in the December 20th issue of Scientific Reports and details how the team of scientists led by Xiaolin Zheng and Chi Hwan Lee achieved such a remarkable breakthrough....